Hon. D. W. Carnegie
jarrah forest, west Australia
general store and post-office,
coolgardie, 1892
the first hotel at coolgardie
the “Gold escort”
Grass trees, near Perth
death of “Tommy”
Fresh meat at last
Bayley street, coolgardie, 1894
condensing water on A salt lake
fever-stricken and alone
miner’s right
typical sandstone gorge
crossing A salt lake
entrance to Empress spring
at work in the cave, Empress
spring
Alexander spring
Woodhouse lagoon
A buck and his gins in camp
at family well
cresting A sand-ridge
Helena spring
the only specimen of desert
architecture
the mad buck
Southesk tablelands
A native hunting party
plan of sand-ridges
exaggerated Section of the sand-ridges
Charles W. Stansmore
native preparing for the emu
dance
spears
tomahawks
boomerangs
clubs and throwing-sticks
shields
quartz knife
ceremonial sticks
rain-making boards
message sticks
group of explorers
just in time
A wild escort of nearly one
hundred men
establishing friendly relations
the tail-end of A miserable
caravan
A Karri timber train
A pearl shell station, Broome,
N.W. Australia
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PART I EARLY DAYS IN COOLGARDIE
CHAPTER I
EARLY DAYS IN THE COLONY
In the month of September, 1892, Lord Percy Douglas (now Lord Douglas of Hawick) and I, found ourselves steaming into King George’s Sound—that magnificent harbour on the south-west coast of Western Australia—building castles in the air, discussing our prospects, and making rapid and vast imaginary fortunes in the gold-mines of that newly-discovered land of Ophir. Coolgardie, a district then unnamed,